{"id":155,"date":"2026-05-29T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:46:50","slug":"e-jean-carroll-still-terrifies-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"E. Jean Carroll still terrifies Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>The smartest way for Donald Trump to deal with his E. Jean Carroll problem would be to accept defeat, pay her what he owes and never speak of her again. Both the media and the public seem, sadly, to have moved on after not one\u00a0but two civil juries found in May 2023 and January 2024 that the retired journalist told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the \u201990s. Even though he has been accused of sexual abuse or harassment by more than two dozen women, a majority of voters either forgot or didn\u2019t care enough about the allegations by the time the November 2024 election came around, instead voting him back into the White House. With this history, the politically wise move for the president would be to stop creating news hooks reminding everyone that his violent, misogynist rhetoric isn\u2019t just a schtick, but a hateful ideology he\u2019s inflicted on real women.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=153\">Tom Suozzi lives at C Street, controversial Christian center behind National Prayer Breakfasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Trump can\u2019t let it go, and he has tied the 82-year-old Carroll up in appeals courts, where he continues to make shameful and dishonest accusations against a woman he has already been held liable for defaming and assaulting. He continues to insist she lied, even as he once veered very close to admitting he did it by falsely saying she enjoyed being assaulted. Now the Justice Department, which has grown even more flagrantly corrupt under the leadership of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche \u2014 who served as Trump\u2019s private lawyer during both of Carroll\u2019s trials \u2014 has opened\u00a0a criminal investigation into Carroll.<\/p>\n<div><span><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"lazy w-full\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hl_Lc49s2n0?si=nEsl8kPCEAkESaA2\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Even by the president\u2019s sub-basement level standards, this move is grotesque. Beyond the damage he\u2019s done as a politician, Trump has been credibly accused of victimizing countless people by taking their money, safety and dignity. But few have endured more psychological damage at Trump\u2019s hands than Carroll, beginning with the alleged \u2014 and reportedly violent \u2014 dressing room encounter, which left her so traumatized she never had sex again. As she testified before two juries, Trump\u2019s repeated public accusations that she lied and is a \u201cwhack job\u201d were ruinous to her career and kept her in constant fear for her safety.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a strong chance this investigation will lead nowhere. Trump\u2019s Justice Department has already developed a reputation for bringing baseless, politicized cases that fall apart in court but still serve to appease the president\u2019s sadistic aspirations. The logic is haywire: Not only is Trump reminding the public about E. Jean Carroll\u2019s accusations, the case could be as doomed as the recent phony charges the department has brought against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The reported investigation into Carroll is about more than the president\u2019s bottomless narcissism. It\u2019s part of a larger, ongoing backlash against the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump is famously vindictive, obsessed with trying to rewrite history by relentlessly accusing people he has wronged of crimes against him. But the reported investigation into Carroll is about more than the president\u2019s bottomless narcissism. It\u2019s part of a larger, ongoing backlash against the #MeToo movement. Trump is just one of hundreds of accused men who are pulling out all stops to demonize women who speak out \u2014 and to scare other victims into silence.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is this backlash has been successful in many regards, turning abusers into victims in the public eye and painting those who take a stand against sexual violence as nags and scolds. But the fact that Trump and his allies feel the need to keep relitigating the Carroll case suggests the forces of misogyny aren\u2019t as victorious as the mainstream narrative might suggest. Victims may not have the money or power that their abusers have, but they still have the truth, and even in our disinformation-addicted age, that can matter. Siccing the Justice Department on Carroll is not a sign of Trump\u2019s strength, but of his inherent weakness. He is so eager to intimidate survivors that he\u2019s willing to pay the price of reminding Americans that E. Jean Carroll \u2014 and the harrowing, compelling story she tells \u2014 exists.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=149\">\u201cSay something! Do something!\u201d: Bruce Springsteen\u2019s tour is a call to action<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Epstein files have faded from the headlines in recent months, but they are still out there. Former attorney general Pam Bondi successfully evaded the law requiring her to release the trove of Justice Department documents pertaining to Trump\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201cbest friend\u201d Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. What has been released hasn\u2019t shown direct evidence of Trump committing crimes against minors, but the picture that has emerged looks bad nonetheless. This includes a birthday card to Epstein, reportedly from Trump, that mentions having \u201ccertain things in common.\u201d A former girlfriend of Epstein\u2019s, Stacey Williams, has accused the president of sexual assault, and she has voiced fears that Epstein delivered her to Trump for that very purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of documents from the Epstein files remain unreleased, and the convicted sex offender\u2019s victims have been outspoken in criticizing the Justice Department for this censorship. On Friday, Bondi is expected to sit for a congressional hearing about the Epstein files, but the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee has made sure her testimony will take place behind closed doors and\u00a0not under oath. But with Democrats widely expected to win control over the House during the November midterms, giving them more power to subpoena people and documents, it will become far harder for Trump\u2019s White House to continue the dodge-and-delay tactics. The lengthy string of sexual assault allegations against the president could surge back into the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Creating an atmosphere of fear for victims isn\u2019t just a matter of personal protection for Trump. His history shows a reflexive desire to protect the accused and attack the accusers, no matter how credible the allegations. Instinctually, Trump\u2019s sympathies are with bullies. Ideologically, even he seems to understand that the best protection abusive men have against accountability is to stick together. The backlash against the #MeToo movement has generally shown that sexual predators create solidarity in a way the left can only dream of. Going after Carroll sends a message to sexually violent men of support from the president and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>But feminists should not be cowed \u2014 and not just because this case, a version of which was already litigated in Carroll\u2019s favor, is likely to crumble in court. There\u2019s a valuable lesson about the power of speaking up. #MeToo was effective because large numbers of people stood by survivors. Its losses are due to the way misogynists hang together. Either way, the takeaway is that there is strength in numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Backing Carroll is a way to repel the efforts to silence women who have a story to tell. By putting her name back in the news, Trump unwittingly gave #MeToo another moment to show that, actually, there are still a lot of people who care about stopping sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=145\">There is no art to Trump\u2019s Iran deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Department efforts to rewrite history show #MeToo still matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5,287,288,12,286,289,290,291],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-commentary","tag-donald-trump","tag-e-jean-carroll","tag-feminism","tag-justice-department","tag-metoo","tag-misogyny","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E. 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